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Offline bjenkins24

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How do you pronounce...
on: August 24, 2008, 08:23:05 PM
Gieseking... uh yeah :)  Every time I say his name out loud I feel like an idiot.  There's a few more names I'd like to ask but I can't remember right now.  If anyone has any other pronunciations they'd like help on feel free to ask in this thread  ;D 

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Re: How do you pronounce...
Reply #1 on: August 25, 2008, 06:56:52 AM
Hope this helps.

Offline pianistimo

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Re: How do you pronounce...
Reply #2 on: August 25, 2008, 10:16:07 AM
hey! my guess was right!  i was going to say that.  seriously.  then, i thought 'no - the 'uh' sound might be wrong.  i was right!  i was right!  thank you pianowolfi.  (mild euphoria)

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Re: How do you pronounce...
Reply #3 on: August 25, 2008, 02:11:54 PM
awesome!  thanks a lot!

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Reply #4 on: August 25, 2008, 09:12:15 PM
hey! my guess was right!  i was going to say that.  seriously.  then, i thought 'no - the 'uh' sound might be wrong.  i was right!  i was right!  thank you pianowolfi.  (mild euphoria)

You are welcome :), but where is there an "uh" sound? Me is slightly confused (hey Nils, where has the confused smiley gone?)

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Re: How do you pronounce...
Reply #5 on: August 26, 2008, 12:44:50 AM
how about claudio arrau how do you pronounce that?

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Re: How do you pronounce...
Reply #6 on: August 26, 2008, 04:40:58 AM
clodee-o arraw

I'd like to know how Richter sounds in russian. I've heard every possible pronunciation there is :O I allways end up by saying richter like you would read it in english but I'd be curious to know how it sounds in russian!

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Re: How do you pronounce...
Reply #7 on: August 26, 2008, 05:07:08 AM
ri -chghhhhh- ter   - wait - wasn't richter german. 

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Re: How do you pronounce...
Reply #8 on: August 26, 2008, 08:56:53 AM
Richter was half German and half Russian I believe. The ch in Richter is a hard ch sound, not like the h sound in English. It almost sounds like you're hocking some mucus in the back of your throat. The linguistic term is a voiceless velar fricative.
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